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The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From th
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How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Asid
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A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games. Since the early 2000s, Henry
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The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America. The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a mu